Bernie gets the shit end again.
Clearly, the nominee won’t be decided tonight. What is at stake is bragging rights, the appearance of momentum, and a chance to prove which candidate can connect with grassroots voters. All of these are a Big Deal going into New Hampshire, and especially the expensive delegate-rich states that actually will pick the winner.
Unless the DNC puts its thumb on the scale to deny a Sanders candidacy.
With that offhand remark, Stephen Green’s early Drunkblogging looks eerily prescient. The Liberty Daily headline says it all:
The link is to Zero Hedge, where Tyler reports:
The results are notably delayed
Iowa’s State Democratic Party, seemingly terrified of blowback if something untoward occurs (note that they canceled the Des Moines poll due to irregularities), initially said it is doing “quality control” on results “out of an abundance of caution.”Then they slowly started to admit there were real issues with a brand new app that had been created especially to ease transmission and transparency of the results.
One precinct chair in Polk County told Bloomberg News he still has not been able to report his results because the phone app was not working and he has been on hold with an alternative hotline for more than 30 minutes.
No biggie, gang, I’m SURE it’s just an honest mistake. Or maybe RUSSIAN BOTS. No doubt the “winner” will be announced just as soon as the Party nomenklatura gets things rigged to their satisfaction, in favor of the candidate they’ve selected for you. Back to Stephen:
Forget what I’ve been saying for months now about the primary schedule from now through South Carolina.
It’s all been torn up, blown up, reduced to its component molecules. And then the molecules were put through centrifuges, made into a nuclear warhead, which was then detonated over everyone’s campaign plans.
Before tonight, it was a fight.
Now it’s war.
Read on for lots more don’t-miss snarky bemusement over how it is that the very Party always so piously screeching about “American democracy” seems utterly incapable of actually making their end of things work.
Transparency, Integrity, Competence update! Clown car crash.
The FOX News crew started LAUGHING OUT LOUD after they broke these news on the continuing disaster.
Bret Baier: Story County, Precinct 101. Guy says, “I’ve been on hold for over an hour to report the results. We have six delegates. I’ve been on hold on the phone to call in the results for over an hour…
Martha MacCallum: Here’s another one… How about this one from Polk County. Precinct chairs are being advised to take pictures of the results and then text them over to the Polk County executive director. Who is then driving them to the headquarters according to a Democratic operative. (Laughter)
You really can’t make this up!
Happily, with the Democrat-Socialist Party you don’t have to. All you have to do is sit back, point, and laugh till your ribs part from their moorings.
This app crash or whatever they’re blaming it on is pure BS. The reason they do not have any results yet is because the DNC needs a little more time to get their stories straight before they announce that Bernie did not win as big as it looked like he would just a day or two ago. They probably cannot totally rob him of all or most of the delegates he was going to win. But they can play games with their little ‘app’ to the extent of switching enough votes that Bernie is robbed of momentum and the status of being the frontrunner going into New Hampshire.
Not that I care or feel sorry for him. Ol’ Bernie is after all an out and out Communist. For that matter so are all the other Dem candidates. It’s just that the DNC knows they cannot openly go full Commie, at least not just yet, or the grift is over. Bernie is threatening to upset their long running con game by being openly full Commie prior to the election, so they have to rig the game against him somehow.